Sunday, November 1, 2009

Pro Poker Tips - Looking at some limit hold’em situations

s an add on to what I discussed in the previous articles on limit play, here I am going to be looking at some actual situations so you can see how certain concepts and ideas work. Carrying on with the subject of early position in full ring games, the types of hand that many people play badly are Broadway hands.

These are any hand that has two high cards or an ace with a high card. The problem with many of these hands is that they are all too likely dominated in certain situations. For instance a K-J would be dominated against AA,KK,QQ,JJ, AK, AJ and KQ. You would be in a situation where you would have to hit the flop twice to overtake the hand that you are up against.

So when someone raises from early position then you are really hoping that they are raising with AQ or maybe TT. Although as you progress as a poker player then you will be able to identify situations where dominated hands can be playable.

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Let us look at one such situation, you have the Jd-10d in early position in a $1-$2 limit hold’em full ring game. You know that this hand is dominated by a large number of hands that could raise. But you have been sat in this game for quite some time and the number of raises have been limited.

No one has been raising limpers and the game has been very loose and passive. In this situation then you could limp in and probably play the hand profitably. It has good implied odds in multi-way pots and the hand plays well in those situations.

But you cannot overvalue this hand as it will play badly in many situations. However with this hand then you can even do quite well against a raise as well, let me explain. Let us say that you limped in with a suited J-10 because the game conditions were perfect. However on this one particular hand you were surprised to see it get folded around to the button who raised.

In this instance then the button could be raising on a far wider range of hands and be looking to isolate against the limper which is you. Depending on the player on the button then their hand could be very well comparable to yours and may often be inferior like with hands like J-9 or even 10-9.

Many players abuse their position on the button and think that it gives them the licence to basically do whatever they want and these are precisely the types of players who you would like to attack your limps.






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